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Spatial Data & Problem Solving in the Earth Sciences
Utah Valley University - Geography
Handy links:
Course [file repository](https://github.com/“}
R for Data Science Website
Amy Willis’ Intro to R course
(for related alternative exercises/lessons)
Big Book of R collection of free R books …Whoa!
Spatial Data Links
The Command Line, File Paths, Git
Week 1
Topics:
- Installing Software | Command-line | Git version control
Assignments
- Read: What is Git all about?
- Install Git, R, and R-Studio on your laptop (part of Assignment 1)
- Be ready to explain what Git, R, and R-Studio are.
- Do Assignment 1 and upload a link to your new GitHub account to Canvas.
- Take a look at this document to see where this class is going
- Go through ALL the resources below. I put them here for a reason. Most are short web resources or videos (some that I made).
Resources
- Video: Meet the command line of your computer
- Download Git
- Download R
- Download R-Studio
- Navigating with the command line (great video!)
- Setting up 2FA for GitHub
- GitHub steps for Assignment 1 video
- Git Cheat Sheet (handy reference)
- Git tutorial for beginners (another walkthrough, if you need it)
- Best Git Cheat Sheet Ever! (Excellent gift idea for a teacher…joking!)
Practice
- Make 10 more separate changes and commits to your README.md file and push each one to GitHub
- Close and open your command line terminal 10 times
- Open your command line terminal and navigate to your new personal GitHub repository for this course (Data_Course_LASTNAME) / Navigate back to your desktop / From your Desktop (without using “cd”) display the contents of Data_Course_LASTNAME/README.md onto your computer screen.
- Please view this short video clip from “Karate Kid” (Seriously)
- When I tell you to close and open your command line 10 times, it’s not because I hate you.
- It’s because I, too, have had to learn this stuff from scratch
- It’s because I know that repetition is crucial to learning this, especially at the beginning
- And it’s because if you don’t spend the time to do this stuff over and over now, by week 6 you will be drowning and helpless.
- When I say “push 10 separate commits to your GitHub repo,” what I’m actually saying is “Show me ‘Paint the Fence’!”
- Because very soon, Mr. Miyagi will be attacking you with things like “Error in url[i] = paste(df[,2], gsub(” “,”_“, : object of type ‘closure’ is not subsettable”
